Founder of Fine Balance Yoga, Nicole Marica, speaks about yoga as a means of self-regulation, embodiment, and mindfulness rooted in non-harm. This is a beautiful interview about the profound benefits of yoga practice for those who have experienced traumatic events.

Founder of Fine Balance Yoga, Nicole Marica, speaks about yoga as a means of self-regulation, embodiment, and mindfulness rooted in non-harm. This is a beautiful interview about the profound benefits of yoga practice for those who have experienced traumatic events.

Trauma Sensitive Yoga

Global speaker, teacher, and author, Max Strom speaks about how technology has affected human health and the importance of breathwork in regulating emotions, processing grief, and living inspired and meaningful lives.  This insightful interview is full of research and stories that illustrate the value of intentional breathwork and the fundamental needs of humans- connection, love and meaning. www.maxstrom.com

Global speaker, teacher, and author, Max Strom speaks about how technology has affected human health and the importance of breathwork in regulating emotions, processing grief, and living inspired and meaningful lives. This insightful interview is full of research and stories that illustrate the value of intentional breathwork and the fundamental needs of humans- connection, love and meaning. <a href="http://www.maxstrom.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.maxstrom.com</a>

Breathe to Heal

Connect to the source of original thought and awaken to the radical brilliance that is always there. Arjuna Ardagh makes awakening possible in the here and now and speaks of the infinite possibilities that can become the foundation of our lives. This podcast was originally recorded as part of the Hollyhock Talks Podcast series in 2016. For more information about Hollyhock Retreat Center, visit www.hollyhock.ca.

Connect to the source of original thought and awaken to the radical brilliance that is always there. Arjuna Ardagh makes awakening possible in the here and now and speaks of the infinite possibilities that can become the foundation of our lives. This podcast was originally recorded as part of the Hollyhock Talks Podcast series in 2016. For more information about Hollyhock Retreat Center, visit <a href="http://www.hollyhock.ca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.hollyhock.ca</a>.

Radical Brilliance

The path of the body is the straightest path to the truth. Conscious Movement Facilitator and long-time Hollyhock presenter, Bettina Rothe speaks about 5Rhythms as a movement practice to re-connect us to the wisdom of our bodies and as a path to healing and wholeness. This podcast was originally recorded as part of the Hollyhock Talks Podcast series in 2016. For more information on Hollyhock Retreat Center, visit www.hollyhock.ca.

The path of the body is the straightest path to the truth. Conscious Movement Facilitator and long-time Hollyhock presenter, Bettina Rothe speaks about 5Rhythms as a movement practice to re-connect us to the wisdom of our bodies and as a path to healing and wholeness. This podcast was originally recorded as part of the Hollyhock Talks Podcast series in 2016. For more information on Hollyhock Retreat Center, visit <a href="http://www.hollyhock.ca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.hollyhock.ca</a>.

Dance: Meditation in Movement

Cultural ecologist and geo-philosoper David Abram speaks about awakening our sensual ability to see the wind, hear the trees, feel the land, taste the ocean, and touch the spirit embedded in the world around us. This is a profound and inspiring journey into the intelligence and living presence of all life forms- plants, animals, humans, and living eco-systems. This podcast was originally recorded as part of the Hollyhock Talks Podcast Series in 2016. For more information about Hollyhock Retreat Center, visit www.hollyhock.ca.

Cultural ecologist and geo-philosoper David Abram speaks about awakening our sensual ability to see the wind, hear the trees, feel the land, taste the ocean, and touch the spirit embedded in the world around us. This is a profound and inspiring journey into the intelligence and living presence of all life forms- plants, animals, humans, and living eco-systems. This podcast was originally recorded as part of the Hollyhock Talks Podcast Series in 2016. For more information about Hollyhock Retreat Center, visit <a href="http://www.hollyhock.ca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.hollyhock.ca</a>.

Awakening our Animal Intelligence

Author, biologist and one of the foremost thought leaders of our time, Rupert Sheldrake speaks about scientific findings that prove Eastern spiritual views that the mind extends beyond the body, that living systems (human, animals, and plants) can communicate non-verbally across space and time, and the power of pilgrimage- both his own annual pilgrimage to Hollyhock, and the practice of pilgrimage. This podcast was recorded as part of the Hollyhock Talks podcast series in 2016. For more information about Hollyhock Retreat Center, visit www.hollyhock.ca.

Author, biologist and one of the foremost thought leaders of our time, Rupert Sheldrake speaks about scientific findings that prove Eastern spiritual views that the mind extends beyond the body, that living systems (human, animals, and plants) can communicate non-verbally across space and time, and the power of pilgrimage- both his own annual pilgrimage to Hollyhock, and the practice of pilgrimage. This podcast was recorded as part of the Hollyhock Talks podcast series in 2016. For more information about Hollyhock Retreat Center, visit <a href="http://www.hollyhock.ca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.hollyhock.ca</a>.

Science, Spirituality, and Nature

Pioneer of using sound and voice in healing and ceremony, Jill Purce speaks about her journey into the creative and healing power of sound, mantra, and ceremony to heal ancestral wounds and develop harmony in the past, present, and future generations.  This podcasts was originally recorded as part of the Hollyhock Talks Podcast series in 2016. For more information about Hollyhock Retreat Center, visit www.hollyhock.ca.

Pioneer of using sound and voice in healing and ceremony, Jill Purce speaks about her journey into the creative and healing power of sound, mantra, and ceremony to heal ancestral wounds and develop harmony in the past, present, and future generations. This podcasts was originally recorded as part of the Hollyhock Talks Podcast series in 2016. For more information about Hollyhock Retreat Center, visit <a href="http://www.hollyhock.ca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.hollyhock.ca</a>.

Ancestral Healing

Listen to a podcast with renowned author, teacher, and ceremonialist, Stephen Jenkinson. "You die in the matter of your living." In poetic and soulful language, Stephen Jenkinson speaks of the moral imperative to contemplate and reconcile death as a way to inform how we live, reclaim our ancestral roots, redeem our past, and leave a legacy for those we love. This podcast was recorded as part of the Hollyhocks Talks Podcast Series in 2016. For more information about Hollyhock Retreat Center, visit www.hollyhock.ca.

Listen to a podcast with renowned author, teacher, and ceremonialist, Stephen Jenkinson. "You die in the matter of your living." In poetic and soulful language, Stephen Jenkinson speaks of the moral imperative to contemplate and reconcile death as a way to inform how we live, reclaim our ancestral roots, redeem our past, and leave a legacy for those we love. This podcast was recorded as part of the Hollyhocks Talks Podcast Series in 2016. For more information about Hollyhock Retreat Center, visit <a href="http://www.hollyhock.ca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.hollyhock.ca</a>.

Die Wise

Listen to a yoga podcast with Swami Muktibodhananda, direct disciple of Swami Satyananda. Swai Muktibodhananda speaks about the ultimate aim of yoga. This podcast was recorded during Swamiji's visit to Vancouver in August 2016. For more information on Swami Muktibodhananda, visit http://www.muktibodharetreatscanada.com/.

Listen to a yoga podcast with Swami Muktibodhananda, direct disciple of Swami Satyananda. Swai Muktibodhananda speaks about the ultimate aim of yoga. This podcast was recorded during Swamiji's visit to Vancouver in August 2016. For more information on Swami Muktibodhananda, visit <a href="http://www.muktibodharetreatscanada.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.muktibodharetreatscanada.com/</a>.

What is Yoga?

Listen to a yoga podcast with Swami Muktibodhanadna, direct disciple of Swami Satyananda. Swami Muktibodhananda speaks the barriers to realizing happiness and harmony and how yoga helps us to get out of our own way and embrace and find peace with our reality. This podcast was recorded during Swamiji's visit to Vancouver in August 2016. For more information on Swami Muktibodhananda, visit http://www.muktibodharetreatscanada.com/.

Listen to a yoga podcast with Swami Muktibodhanadna, direct disciple of Swami Satyananda. Swami Muktibodhananda speaks the barriers to realizing happiness and harmony and how yoga helps us to get out of our own way and embrace and find peace with our reality. This podcast was recorded during Swamiji's visit to Vancouver in August 2016. For more information on Swami Muktibodhananda, visit <a href="http://www.muktibodharetreatscanada.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.muktibodharetreatscanada.com/</a>.

Getting out of Your Own Way

Podcasts about yoga, spirituality, health and wellness. For more info., visit: www.drishtipoint.ca

Podcasts about yoga, spirituality, health and wellness. For more info., visit: <a href="http://www.drishtipoint.ca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.drishtipoint.ca</a>

Drishti Point Yoga and Spirituality

We talk to singer Theda Phoenix in this Drishti Point podcast, who writes and sings music inspired by spirituality, personal growth and transformation. In this podcast, you get the chance to hear about the path that led Theda to becoming a musician, listen to some of her tracks, and hear her perform some of her songs live in studio.

Music as Medicine

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Master teacher Max Strom. In this interview, Max speaks about his book A Life Worth Breathing and the importance of the three pillars of health- mind, body, and emotions, and the power of practicing gratitude which opens the doorway to forgiveness, compassion, and all other positive virtues.

A Life Worth Breathing

"Our hearts are made for loving.”Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Norman Fisher, author of Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lo-Jong. Fisher is an American Soto Zen Roshi, poet, and Buddhist author, co-Abbot of the San Fransisco Zen Center and founder of Everyday Zen Foundation.In this yoga podcast, Fisher speaks about our deepest human longing for connection and love, our potential for compassion, and the practice of Lo-Jung as a method of training the heart. This is an insightful interview on one of the most Buddhist practices.

"Our hearts are made for loving.” Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Norman Fisher, author of Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lo-Jong. Fisher is an American Soto Zen Roshi, poet, and Buddhist author, co-Abbot of the San Fransisco Zen Center and founder of Everyday Zen Foundation. In this yoga podcast, Fisher speaks about our deepest human longing for connection and love, our potential for compassion, and the practice of Lo-Jung as a method of training the heart. This is an insightful interview on one of the most Buddhist practices.

Lo-Jong: Training in Compassion

Listen to a fascinating interview with Ora Sundara Maimes who completed a three year Retreat at Diamond Mountain. Ora speaks about her Retreat and what it means to let go of who you are and using Retreat to transform ourselves from the inside out. Ora elaborates on the eleven yogas of the Angel of Diamond and how meditation is a tool to transform how we see ourselves, how we see others, and ultimately how we see our world.This is a deeply profound interview about Retreat, transformation, and Enlightenment.

Listen to a fascinating interview with Ora Sundara Maimes who completed a three year Retreat at Diamond Mountain. Ora speaks about her Retreat and what it means to let go of who you are and using Retreat to transform ourselves from the inside out. Ora elaborates on the eleven yogas of the Angel of Diamond and how meditation is a tool to transform how we see ourselves, how we see others, and ultimately how we see our world. This is a deeply profound interview about Retreat, transformation, and Enlightenment.

Memoir of 3-Year Silent Retreat

Listen to a podcast with Swami Muktibodhananda, direct disciple of Swami Satyananda Saraswati. In this podcast, Swami Muktibodhanana speaks about kriyas- a practice of kriyas as a path to liberation from suffering and the experience of bliss and divinity. This podcast was recorded during Swamiji's visit to Vancouver in August 2016. For more information on Swami Muktibodhananda, visit http://www.muktibodharetreatscanada.com/.

Listen to a podcast with Swami Muktibodhananda, direct disciple of Swami Satyananda Saraswati. In this podcast, Swami Muktibodhanana speaks about kriyas- a practice of kriyas as a path to liberation from suffering and the experience of bliss and divinity. This podcast was recorded during Swamiji's visit to Vancouver in August 2016. For more information on Swami Muktibodhananda, visit <a href="http://www.muktibodharetreatscanada.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.muktibodharetreatscanada.com/</a>.

Introduction to Kriyas

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Radio podcast with Vishwaguru Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda.  In this beautiful and inspiring interview, Swami Maheshwarananda speaks about Guru Tattva- the unchangeable, eternal, everlasting principle that leads us from the darkness of ignorance to the truth of the Light through Satsang, through the guidance of one who has reached higher consciousness, and through the practice of yoga.Whatever we are doing, we should be aware that the aim of my life is to realize this Guru Tattva within.Visit SwamijiTV for live webcasts and Satsangs.

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Radio podcast with Vishwaguru Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda. In this beautiful and inspiring interview, Swami Maheshwarananda speaks about Guru Tattva- the unchangeable, eternal, everlasting principle that leads us from the darkness of ignorance to the truth of the Light through Satsang, through the guidance of one who has reached higher consciousness, and through the practice of yoga. Whatever we are doing, we should be aware that the aim of my life is to realize this Guru Tattva within. Visit SwamijiTV for live webcasts and Satsangs.

Guru Tattva

Listen to two Drishti Point Podcasts with Master Teacher Rod Stryker, founder of Para Yoga, and author of The Four Desires.In the first yoga podcast, Rod speaks about dharma (the desire to become who you were meant to be), artha (the means to fulfill your dharma), kama (the desire for pleasure), and moksha (the desire for freedom and a connection to the Eternal). This is a beautiful interview about how to create a life of purpose, prosperity, happiness and freedom.Tantra, Mantra, Gurus, and the GoddessIn the second yoga podcast, Rod speaks about the history and origins of Tantra, the practice of tantra and mantra, what it means to have a Guru, the experience of samadhi, and the ultimate aim and purpose of yoga.

Listen to two Drishti Point Podcasts with Master Teacher Rod Stryker, founder of Para Yoga, and author of The Four Desires. In the first yoga podcast, Rod speaks about dharma (the desire to become who you were meant to be), artha (the means to fulfill your dharma), kama (the desire for pleasure), and moksha (the desire for freedom and a connection to the Eternal). This is a beautiful interview about how to create a life of purpose, prosperity, happiness and freedom. Tantra, Mantra, Gurus, and the Goddess In the second yoga podcast, Rod speaks about the history and origins of Tantra, the practice of tantra and mantra, what it means to have a Guru, the experience of samadhi, and the ultimate aim and purpose of yoga.

The Four Desires

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Shelley Tomczyk. Shelley speaks about her spiritual journey into the Western Baul Lineage and her love of Anusara Yoga. This is a beautiful interview about what it means to open the heart and to live and practice from the heart.

Teaching from the Heart

Listen to Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Venerable Sumati Marut about Gyana Yoga (the Yoga of Wisdom). This is a beautiful interview about the importance of a Guru in realizing wisdom; and how this relationship has the potential to bring about a complete transformation in such a way that the student realizes the Guru within and lives life in accordance with the highest wisdom that the world is a projection of our mind.

Bhagavad Gita Series: Gyana Yoga

Listen to a special Drishti Point Podcast with Marion (Mugs) McConnell. Recently awarded the Queen Jubilee Award for her service to yoga, and one of the founding members of SOYA, Mugs has dedicated her life to training yoga teachers. In this interview, Mugs speaks about how she found yoga, the love of her dear teacher Dr. Hari Dickman, her favorite yoga books, and her advice for young people who are searching for their path and purpose in life.

A Life Dedicated to Yoga

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Kimberly Theresa about Finding your Calling. “When we are aligned with our core values and deepest yearnings, our lives are filled with passion, meaning and authenticity. We can, and must, identify and follow our hearts desire in order to feel complete.” Kimberly explores the nature of callings, and how we identify them, and key strategies for stepping into them.

Find Your Calling

To be awake, to be enlightened, is to be fully and completely embodied. To be fully at one with who we are, in every respect, including our physical being, our emotions, and the totality of our karmic situation.Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Director of Dharma Ocean, Dr. Reggie Ray.  Reggie speaks about the modern alienation of the body, the importance of connecting to the Earth as a way of grounding and finding inner calm, and developing sensitivity to and connection with the Earth as a living being as a part of our spiritual evolution.

To be awake, to be enlightened, is to be fully and completely embodied. To be fully at one with who we are, in every respect, including our physical being, our emotions, and the totality of our karmic situation. Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Director of Dharma Ocean, Dr. Reggie Ray. Reggie speaks about the modern alienation of the body, the importance of connecting to the Earth as a way of grounding and finding inner calm, and developing sensitivity to and connection with the Earth as a living being as a part of our spiritual evolution.

Enlightenment in the Body

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Best Episodes on Global Issues

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